Historical Records of North Carolina Counties - The County Records

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The Historical Records
Of North Carolina
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The County Records -
Prepared by the Works Progress Administration
1,500 pages, indexed, searchable
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Bonus Book –
U.S. Census of Agriculture – 1959
Farms, Farm Characteristics,
Livestock and Products,
Crops, Fruits, Values
By U.S. Department of Commerce
800+ pages, Indexed, Searchable
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Preface
PREFACE
The Historical Records Survey of the Works Progress
Administration was organized early in 1936 for the primary-
p
urpose of inventorying the archives of governmental units in
the United States other than the Federal government. The project in North Carolina was one of the very first to be organized, and will probably be the first to complete the work as far as county records are concerned. It is with pleasure that I congratulate Dr. Crittenden, Mr. Lacy, and their able staff of workers upon the completion of the first volume of their inventories of county records.
The basic principle upon which the project has been operated on a nation-wide basis is the mimeographing of county inventories as separate units in a series. Each unit is self-contained,
although this resultis achieved only at the cost of the duplication of a considerable body of information concerning county government and the contents of individual series of records which are uniform throughout a number of counties.
I have felt justified in permitting the project in North Carolina to deviate from the nation-wide system by covering all the counties in one set of volumes in which the information on county government and the various series of records would be given only once. The printing of these volumes has been made possible through the cooperation of the North Carolina Historical Commission, of which Dr. Crittenden is secretary.
I believe that the published lists of the county records of North Carolina will prove to be of great value in the administration of county government and also that they will open up a vast field of research for students of the social sciences.
Introduction to the County Records
North Carolina's counties do not vary so extremely in size
as do those of the nation at large, from New York County,
New York, with only 22 square miles, to San Bernardino
County, California, with the enormous area of 20,175 square
m
iles. The two smallest North Carolina counties are Chowan,
in the east, with 165 square miles, and Mitchell, in the west,
with 213 square miles. The two largest counties are Robeson,
with 990 square miles, and Bladen, with 976 square miles —
both in the southeast.The average size of the North Caro
lina county is 487.4 square miles, as compared with a national
average of 913 square miles.
The counties vary considerably in age. Oldest are Curri-
tuck, Pasquotank, Parquimans, and Chowan, created (as pre-
cincts) in 1670, in the northeastern or Albemarle section.
Youngest are Hoke, in the south central region, and Avery,
in the mountains, both established as recently as 1911. Since
the east was settled first, the eastern counties tend to be older
than those in the west. There are, however, numerous excep-
tions. For example. Buncombe (county seat Asheville), in the
heart of the mountains, as formed as early as 1792, while
Dare, farthest east of all the counties, was not established until
1870.
The 1930 census gave North Carolina a population of
3,170,276, an increase of 611,153 or 23.9 per cent since 1920,
and an average of 65 persons per square mile. Only 13 coun-
ties (Buncombe, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Durham, For-
syth, Gaston, Guilford, Mecklenburg, New Hanover, Rowan,
Wake, and Wilson) had a density of more than 100 persons
to the square mile, while 11 counties (Bladen, Brunswick,
Camden, Clay, Currituck, Dare, Hyde, Onslow, Pender, Swain,
and Tyrrell) had less than 25 persons to the square mile. All
the counties but five showed an increase in population since
1920. The two most populous counties were Guilford, with
133,010, and Mecklenburg, with 127,971. The smallest popu-
lations were those of Tyrrell, with 5,164, and Dare, with 5,202.
Most of the North Carolina counties are to be classed as
rural. In 1930 only six of them (Buncombe, Durham, Forsyth,
Mecklenburg, New Hanover, and Pasquotank) had each a city
containing more than one-half its total population. Forty-five
had no town with as many as 2,500 population. There had
been a rapid growth of urban population since 1920, but the
percentage of urban population (in towns of 2,500 or over)
was still only 25.5. The largest towns were Charlotte (Meck-
lenburg County), with a population of 82,675; Winston-Salem
(Forsyth County), with 75,274; Greensboro (Guilford County),
with 53,569; Durham (Durham County), with 52,037; and
Asheville (Buncombe County), with 50,193.
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